Domestic food and beverage manufacturers reported that they had difficulties importing ingredients from China.
According to Kommersant with reference to its source, the problems are related to the loading of the ports of the Far East. The newspaper's interlocutor said that unloading dates had to be constantly postponed.
All this may cause the company to run out of stocks of raw materials, which is particularly undesirable before the high New Year's season.
According to Maksim Novikov, president of Soyuznapiskov, difficulties arose with supplies of citric acid from China. A similar situation occurs with PepsiCo (brands Pepsi, 7UP, Mirinda, Fruktovy Sad and others), where problems arose with the supply of some ingredients, including citric acid.